A Tuesday exposé by NTV has revealed that there is gross misconduct by the Child Welfare Society of Kenya in the way they handle children with special needs.
The institution has been found to have admitted special children to an unregistered medical facility where they are given medical supplements and occupational therapy.
These children have medical conditions which include cerebral palsy, bipolar disorder, autism, and mental retardation.
Children Welfare Society is said to have withdrawn about 20 special needs children from medical facilities such as Kenyatta National Hospital, Gertrude’s Children Hospital and AIC Kijabe Hospital only to take them to the quack facility named as Stallion Rain’s Associate.
The Nairobi-based hospital facility administers a minimum of 5 drugs in a day for each child. These drugs have been found to be reactive to some of the children, but ‘orders from above’ do not allow the administrator of the drugs to discontinue.
The green therapy sessions offered by the facility causes pain to the children as their bodies are pricked, cut exposed to electric lazer devices that aim at brushing their nerve endings from head to toe.
Stallion Rain’s supplements and therapy services have been found to cost an average of 100,000 per child every month.
According to Dr Dan Ndiga, Chief Occupational Therapist KNH, the children were undergoing treatment and occupational therapy at the government facility when the welfare society decided to withdraw them under unclear circumstances.
Dr Ndiga was in shock and disbelief after seeing a video of the wrong occupational therapy the children were put through at the quack facility.
“If we are to look at it from an occupational therapy point of view, pinching and pricking those places will not solve anything,” he said.
NTV reporter Edmond Nyabola visited the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board, where he found out that Stallion Rain’s Associates was not a registered facility and is operating illegally.
Samples of the drugs were taken to the Kenya Pharmacies and Poisons Board, where it was established that among the 13 drug samples, only one was registered.
This led to the medical regulator visiting the quack facility where they conducted inspections and pick drug samples.
The quack clinic operators were found to be unqualified. They were arrested and taken to the DCI headquarters for questioning.